Fixed vendor strategies - 10/03/06

Tropos is partnering with Alvarion for municipal markets. Up to now, Tropos was partnering with Motorola.

Nortel plans to focus on the high-growth domains of carriers and enterprises by introducing converged, enterprise security and mobility products. Nortel' s strategy is to become the world's leading converged voice application platform by 2007.

Cisco is partnering with IBM to interface its new IP-based Unified Communications systems and software with networked-computer and server-resident applications.

Cisco is also partnering with Microsoft for integrating the Unified Communications systems with Microsoft’s Office Communicator 2005 and Office Live Communications Server 2005 product lines.

Passave has delivered its its one millionth FTTH ONU device to Mitsubishi for use in Japan' s FTTH broadband access network market.

Adtran is expanding its Voice over IP (VoIP) portfolio to enter the customer premises-based IP PBX market, and introduced its New NetVanta 7100 IP PBX-Switch-Router.

Microsoft made a deal with Telecom Italia to jointly develop new telecommunication services and entertainment applications for fixed and mobile terminals.

Nortel and Tandberg will cooperate on videoconferencing solutions.

Lucent and Japan Telecom have successfully completed a field trial of 40 Gbit/s optical networking system.

Tyco Telecom completed Antilles landing points for the ACC submarine telecom system. The system could be run by June.

Siemens and Yahoo have entered a partnership to extend VOIP calling capabilities to Siemens' gigaset cordless telephones.

Juniper Networks and NEC are partnering to develop next-generation networking (NGN) solutions.

Siemens introduced a WiMAX modem, Gigaset SE461.

Alvarion announced the extension of its market BreezeMAX solution to 3.6 GHz band.

Alcatel said it had delivered more than 80m digital subscriber lines (DSL) to customers worldwide by the end of 2005.